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Palm Pre DEFINITELY KICK BUTTS (puts iphone on shame)!

Has some cool stuff, but every "iphone killer" fails. This will follow, thus being cool its own way.
 
pre is a nice phone, palm needs it to be a hit or they are toast. If I were them, I would be more concerned about getting the device to market quickly instead of their investors making comparisons to the iphone every chance they get, if the pre doesn't live up to it's "hype" someone will have egg on their face.
 
dissdnt said:
And AT&T doesnt? Sprints network is mad fast. I used to run EVDO card on my macbook pro and it screamed.

AT&T 3G is horrid and no coverage.
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Agreed. If not for Sprint's horrible customer service they would be up there with Verizon i think. ATT sucks, if they didn't have the iPhone id never consider them...
 
Meh. Wake me when production units are available for us devs.

(Why do I think that Palm's not gonna offer dev hardware and will instead assume that we're gonna sign on with Sprint just to develop for the new flavor of the month... :rolleyes:)
 
Love it.

Iphone 3.0 will be out before or around Pre's 1.0.

God bless those html/javascript lovin' fools.

Steamroller.
Meet Palm.

Also, an invite-only webcast (for journalists, one presumes) today, March 12
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Just noticed that.

hah! five days after.

Is Chris Mathews the new CEO of apple, 'cause this is "hardball"...
 
jeremykyle said:
Talk about an iPhone copier.
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I can't see how it is an "iPhone copier" when it offers many more functions that the iPhone does not have (c/p, MMS, mutlitasking, etc.). It doesn't even have the same form factor; it has a slide-out physical keyboard. The only thing that is being copied is the multitouch, which Apple copied from others.
 
kas23 said:
I can't see how it is an "iPhone copier" when it offers many more functions that the iPhone does not have (c/p, MMS, mutlitasking, etc.). It doesn't even have the same form factor; it has a slide-out physical keyboard. The only thing that is being copied is the multitouch, which Apple copied from others.
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I thought Apple acquired Fingerworks..
 
svndmvn said:
I thought Apple acquired Fingerworks..
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perhaps that microsoft adquired fingerworks for its MS Surface? i remember to watch the same type of finger interaction before the iphone announcement on the microsoft product..
 
ahahaha, I can see Apple taking all of palm pre's features and including them in w/ the new 3.0 firmware next tuesday
 
Shackler said:
Apple works fast.
Not THAT fast though.
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Apple could easily have been working on things not in 2.0 OS prior to Pre. We'll have a taste very soon.

Apple is likely to have have had a lot in the background prior to the Pre. Apple's more secretive about it at the moment. We don't have to wait too long.

I'm hoping for Latitude, and some 10.6 hints. Maybe a move towards concurrency amongst other things, and GPU for the iPhone.
Tethering? turn by turn ? lots of things possible.
 
aristobrat said:
I haven't found any information from this webcast that Palm did yesteday?

Anyone else?
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I read that Sprint annoucned their pricing structure. About the same or a little cheaper then the ATT plans i believe, and they are requiring data plans for the Preeeeee.

From the posts from users I read, half of them were whining about how their grandfathered SERO plan would force them get a new data plan (more $$$) or how they would need to spend more $$$ per month for the plan. They are about to face the reality of a price hike when they add a data plan.

Typical Sprint users, complaining about prices and always bringing up their 8 year old SERO accounts as a measurement of how "cheap" their service is and how no matter what tech ships they should always get it for that grandfathered price for some reason.

:rolleyes:
 
Thanks, I missed that press release.

Yeah, I too am amazed at the number of people with SERO plans that expect to be able to keep that crazily low monthly rate forever AND be eligible to keep upgrading to the latest and greatest phones.

I wish AT&T would match the "Simply Everything" plans by including free, unlimited text messaging in their data plans, but since Sprint is the only one doing that, and their ship appears to still be sinking, I won't hold my breath.
 
aristobrat said:
I haven't found any information from this webcast that Palm did yesteday?
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Turned out to be pretty much a non-event.

ZDNet Blog

PS. I always Google for something like "palm pre sprint", and then click the "News" link on the results page. Then click the "all news" links for the hidden results under each main result.

Basically, use Google News search... not Web search.
 
I agree. I am sick of the nickle and diming tactics of at+t. If iphone was available on other cell services, many customers would abandon the at+t ship....

aristobrat said:
I wish AT&T would match the "Simply Everything" plans by including free, unlimited text messaging in their data plans, but since Sprint is the only one doing that, and their ship appears to still be sinking, I won't hold my breath.
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The Palm Pre looks awesome! I love Apple products and own quite a few of them (including an iPhone) but I have to admit that this phone looks like it can compete.

The G1 Android boggles my mind in that I have no idea why people are so excited about it. It's an overhyped side kick.

This Palm Pre is the only phone I have seen so far, including Nokias, that looks like it is up to par with the iPhone. :apple:

P.S. Watch the videos and read about it before commenting. Saying Palm sucks before even researching their new product is just juvenile.
 
I'll wait for the final product before I get too excited. It's normal for pre-release features to get cut before the final product is released, so what you see in videos now doesn't necessarily equal what you'll get when it's finally ready for sale.
 
I think Apple is doing their iPhone 3.0 preview this week to counteract the Palm Pre buzz.

See- Apple can promise a lot of stuff this week that will generate hype. But they don't actually have to deliver. They do this all the time. I sense that SJ goes into these events knowing that bout 15% of what he is promising won't actually be released on time, or at all... but it is the price he has to pay to get the PR buzz.

Is there any reason other than marketing that Apple is announcing the 3.0 features this week? Why not just wait until the update is ready and just release it? I don't recall that Apple did anything similar with 2.0. It just came out, no? So the argument that it helps developers plan, is BS. Apple has other ways of helping developers plan- look at Snow Leopard.

This event is pure marketing- and it allows Apple to promise a bit more than will actually be delivered.
 
zub3qin said:
Is there any reason other than marketing that Apple is announcing the 3.0 features this week? Why not just wait until the update is ready and just release it? I don't recall that Apple did anything similar with 2.0.
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Last March, Apple held the iPhone Roadmap event, where they talked about the App Store, Exchange being added, released the SDK, and so forth.
 
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